Cohens moral panic

A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order; and is when something that could affect society in the wrong way is published like it is nothing.


An example of this is when the artist Chris Brown was put on certain magazines front covers to make people want to read about the situation between him an Rihanna. Some would of seen this as wrong as they don't believe he should be given publicity for what he did.
Also, the fact that it isn't portraying him as doing something wrong can seem insensitive and could offend certain people.